Ethernet Storage White Papers

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Archiving File Data with Snap EDR
 
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Automated archiving allows you to free up additional disk space on remote systems by removing selected data such as rarely used files from remote sites and storing them at a central location.

iSCSI Networked Storage White Paper
 
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Storage Area Networks (SANs)
 
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See how Fibre Channel and iSCSI SANs allow you to maximize storage capacity, scalability, and flexibility in the face of exponential growth of critical corporate data. Discover solutions that enable you to make more data available to more users, while ensuring that data is properly protected.

Disk-to-Disk Backup and Restore with Adaptec Snap Server 4500
 
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Learn how to overcome the challenges of protecting business-critical data with faster backup and restores than traditional tape-based backup can provide. This solution incorporates CommVault QiNetix backup software and the Adaptec Snap Server 4500 storage array to provide a practical, cost-effective and easily deployed solution for daily backup/restore tasks.

Distributing Data with Snap EDR
 
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See how you can easily distribute data from one source machine to one or more cross-platform target machines for business uses including distributing updated price lists, delivering product manuals to widely-dispersed customers, sending source code, synchronizing standard corporate legal documents.

Data Inventory with Snap EDR
 
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See how the Data Inventory tool in Snap EDR can help you to make better use of your data by identifying files that are never or rarely used, create policies to automatically remove rarely used files from the system and store them elsewhere, and create additional storage space by removing them from the system.

RAID Implementation for Snap Servers and JBOD
 
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This document is a best practices paper for the successful integration of Snap Servers using expansion storage. It contains the initial criteria on how to best configure RAID for the system. With this guide, you can choose configuration options for a

iSCSI - Unified Network Storage Increases the Cost-Effectiveness of the Distributed Information Value Chain
 
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Learn how an iSCSI SAN capable of storing both block and file data on a single platform simplified data storage

ID Mapping - Simplifying Heterogeneous File Sharing
 
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This whitepaper details how the latest GuardianOS release can be integrated into enterprises that support the authentication infrastructures for both Windows Domains and UNIX NIS Domains.

Unicode and the Implications of Its Implementation
 
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This whitepaper details the new Unicode feature of GuardianOS v4.0, which enables a single software product to be targeted across multiple platforms, languages, and countries without re-engineering the existing environment.

Remote Data Best Practices
 
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This best practices guide shows you how to reduce the time and cost of remote backup while increasing the reliability of data protection at remote offices with an automated solution based on Snap EDR.

Database and Storage Solution for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses with Snap Server 4500
 
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Learn how to implement a database storage configuration combining the Adaptec Snap Server 4500 Array with IBM's DB2 Universal Database Express Edition Version 8.1. This solution meets the needs of business today and provides the flexibility to grow and evolve to meet future needs, while protecting the database storage investment.

Version 4.0 Release of GuardianOS™ New Features
 
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This whitepaper provides an overview of the latestfeature updates, additions and removals from the newestrelease of GuardianOS™ v4.0.

Interlink Group: SQL Server 2000 iSCSI Snap Server 18000 Characterization
 
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In a series of comprehensive tests conducted by Interlink Group, comparing the Adaptec Snap Server 18000 to direct attached storage as primary storage for database applications in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 environments, the Snap Server 18000 was found to provide the block-level performance required by most organizations.

How Disk-to-Disk (D2D) Backup Enables Faster, More Cost-Effective Backups, Restores, and Nearline Storage
 
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The Cost Benefits of an iSCSI SAN
 
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Analysis of iSCSI TCO compared to FC SAN and to direct-attached storage

Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Using the Adaptec Snap Server 4500 and NetVault Virtual Tape Library
 
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Learn how a GuardianOS Snap Server with integrated BakBone NetVault software provides a solution using a unique Virtual Tape Library (VTL) feature that separates backup and tape archiving functions so you can complete a full backup in a minimum amount of time and archive it to tape without impacting users or slowing the network.

The Benefits of Storage Consolidation
 
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Aggregating Data with Snap EDR
 
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See how you can easily aggregate file data to a common location from multiple cross-platform servers for business needs including retrieving daily sales files, collecting server logs and collecting Point of Sale data.

Replicating Data with Snap EDR
 
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See how you can easily schedule automated data transfer from one source machine to one target machine for business needs including replication of user data for disaster recovery, replication of data for high data availability, keeping a document repository synchronized with a single source system.

High-Availability Storage Area Network with Adaptec SANbloc 2Gb RAID Storage Array
 
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Learn how to overcome business continuance challenges with a high-availability SAN based on the Adaptec SANbloc 2Gb RAID storage array, with Emulex LP10000 HBAs and Vixel InSpeed 9050FF switch. This solution provides a flexible, reliable, and easily managed solution for deploying high-availability SANs in a variety of configurations.

Disk-to-Disk Backup and Restore with Adaptec FS4500 RAID Storage Array
 
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Learn how to overcome the challenges of protecting business-critical data with faster backup and restores than traditional tape-based backup can provide. This solution incorporates ARCserve 11 backup software and the Adaptec FS4500 storage array to provide a practical, cost-effective and easily deployed backup/restore solution for a Fibre Channel SAN environment.

Storage Area Networks (SANs)
 
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See how Fibre Channel and iSCSI SANs allow you to maximize storage capacity, scalability, and flexibility in the face of exponential growth of critical corporate data. Discover solutions that enable you to make more data available to more users, while ensuring that data is properly protected.

High-Availability Storage Area Network with Adaptec FS4500 RAID Storage Array
 
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Learn how to overcome business continuance challenges with a high-availability SAN based on the Adaptec FS4500 RAID storage array, with Emulex LP1050 Fibre Channel HBA and Vixel InSpeed 355 Loop Switch. This solution provides a flexible, reliable, and easily managed solution for deploying high-availability SANs in a variety of configurations.

Which RAID Level is Right for Me?
 
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Easily identify the right RAID level for your needs with this introduction to the cost, performance, and protection benefits of RAID 0, 1, 1E, 5, 5EE, 6, 10, 50, and 60.

Ultra320 for Data-Hungry Applications
 
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Ultra320 SCSI is the next step in the evolution of the parallel SCSI protocol designed to address the continuing growth in the demand placed on storage connectivity bandwidth

Seamless Streaming Maximizes Performance
 
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White Paper discusses the unique advantages that Adaptec Seamless Streaming technology brings to the Ultra320 SCSI technology

Ultra320 for Data-Hungry Applications
 
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Ultra320 SCSI is the next step in the evolution of the parallel SCSI protocol designed to address the continuing growth in the demand placed on storage connectivity bandwidth

U320 SCSI Cables: Ensuring Data Integrity
 
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Direct Attached Storage and Storage Area Networks are two key storage designs; this document helps you understand their distinct features.

Seamless Streaming Maximizes Performance
 
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White Paper discusses the unique advantages that Adaptec Seamless Streaming technology brings to the Ultra320 SCSI technology

About Serial Attached SCSI
 
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Parallel technology has reached its maximum performance. Learn how SAS and SATA overcome the barriers of its predecessor.

SAS & SATA Compatibility
 
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Learn how compatibility between SATA and SAS will provide many benefits to integrators and users alike.

Easing the Migration from Parallel to Serial Storage
 
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Find out how to move mission-critical data from parallel to new serial architecture with no downtown.

Serial Attached SCSI for External Subsystems
 
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SAS provides significant benefits to external storage subsystems and offers users "one-stop-shopping" to satisfy their requirements for the following three main data types: throughput data, transaction data and reference data. Find out how in this whitepaper.

SAS Expanders
 
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Learn how SAS expanders can make it easy to design redundant systems for fault high tolerance.

Maximizing Server Storage Performance with PCI Express™ and Serial Attached SCSI
 
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Combining Serial Attached SCSI's wide ports with PCI Express's wide lanes, a system designer can maximize total storage system performance.

SAS Performance
 
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Summary of SAS performance alongside SCSI and Serial ATA

Instant Capacity Expansion: Save Valuable IT Resources with Fast, Simplified Storage Provisioning
 
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